A Midsummer Nights Dream - RCS 2019

In this production, the central idea of the play came from the framing device that the fantasy all derives from Hermea's dream. The characters are all transfigured from her school mates and teachers on the brink of leaving education to the magical woodlands of the faeries Oberon and Titania.

In creating the music, I wanted to try and capture the idea of each of the central characters (in this case Hermea, Helena, Oberon, Titania, and Puck) being submerged into a state of unconscious blurred reality, with all of their music derived from the original themes of Hermea. All of the music is a blur between reality and fantasy in which the ideas are all of a distortion of Hermea's own perceptions of these individuals (Oberon and Titania her teachers, Helena her schoolfriend) in order to create a landscape teetering on the edge of fact and fiction.